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8/5/2010 10:58:08 AM

^^

8/5/2010 11:09:43 AM

By e-mail.

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8/5/2010 11:12:11 AM

People still fax things?

8/5/2010 12:30:40 PM

He wants to send his grandkid a birthday card.

8/5/2010 12:44:39 PM

i don't feel comfortable emailing it, so it's not really an option

there's no reason for y'all to be embarrassed that you don't know

[Edited on August 5, 2010 at 2:01 PM. Reason : .]

8/5/2010 1:59:28 PM

No one does it for free even with ads that I know of.

Try something like this:
https://faxzero.com/international/

Or go to your local FedEx Office store, they have fax machines there you can use.

[Edited on August 5, 2010 at 3:52 PM. Reason : .]

8/5/2010 3:51:53 PM

But you feel more comfortable faxing it, which will result in shitty image quality and can be seen or picked up out of the tray by anyone walking by. Okay.

8/5/2010 3:57:26 PM

I need to know the easiest/cheapest way to send international flax.

I've got a crop coming in soon, but spot prices are looking better for me in Europe after last year's Canadian GM flax fiasco.

8/5/2010 3:59:03 PM

There's even encryption in PDF/emails so I'm with you Frosh, doesn't seem like faxing would make any more sense.

8/5/2010 3:59:18 PM

By e-mail.

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8/5/2010 4:16:34 PM

Quote :

"But you feel more comfortable faxing it, which will result in shitty image quality and can be seen or picked up out of the tray by anyone walking by. Okay."

it's awesome that you think you have a fuck's worth of a clue as to the circumstances, but by all means, educate me

go back to being an english teacher or whatever the hell you went to school for, k? thanks.

8/5/2010 4:55:05 PM

Oh, shit, Mr. 1994 here is trying to push my buttons!

8/5/2010 5:58:10 PM

You do realize that MOST faxes are received digitally and delivered via email anyway, right?

Wanting to keep it out of a digital record isn't going to be solved by fax. Mail it if you want to keep it out of digital spaces.

8/5/2010 6:27:02 PM

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8/5/2010 6:28:32 PM

For a lot of industries, fax is a critical business need.

Fax machines are easy to use. Enter a phone number and drop in the documents. That's all there is to it.

How many steps are involved in scanning a stack of documents and emailing them? How easy is it?

And how many people really have scanners? The only people I know who own scanners are photographers. The "normal" people I know don't have any idea how to scan. They probably do know how to use a fax machine though.

As Noen said, most faxes are sent/received digitally and delivered via email. But depending on who the sender and/or receiver is, that's not the best way. In construction, law, and medicine to name a few, paper records are still required, and faxing is just simpler than electronically sending documents, especially those requiring signatures.

8/5/2010 7:30:03 PM

encrypt then email, call the dude on the phone and give him to the passphrase to decrypt/decompress if you wanna be "secure"

8/5/2010 8:57:42 PM

^^actually every modern business printer has a copier built in with autofeed, and a lot of people use them to scan large paper documents and then send them from printer/scanner to email or send via telephone(fax).

A modern xerox multifunction can do high dpi scans just as fast as it can print

8/6/2010 12:11:40 PM

^I'm in the construction industry and can attest we scan stuff ALL the time (via MFC & large-format) and when we fax it's only typically because the recipient only has a fax machine and no computer.

Not sure if it's security related or what, but our MFC do not do our faxing for us (although they could) we use an actual fax machine to handle all our faxes. I guess b/c they like the colored paper? I dunno.

For us our MFC can scan hundreds of documents just as fast as it copies if not faster because it doesn't have to print anything, it saves it into the PDF format you want and will either email it directly to you or store it on a network drive.

Here's my normal process for responding to an RFI:
1) Drop stack of papers in MFC
2) Select Send/Scan & pick my email address
3) Scans and sends directly to my inbox
4) Forward email to recipient.

I think it's maybe 1 more step than faxing.

Even when I worked for a small company <10 people, they had MFC that did the same thing.

[Edited on August 6, 2010 at 12:25 PM. Reason : .]

8/6/2010 12:24:40 PM

we fax loads of shit to doctors offices and hospitals because they are the worst run and managed of all businesses.

8/6/2010 12:43:15 PM

^truth

8/6/2010 12:46:25 PM

if you ever hear anyone complaing about insurance companies being the problem with healthcare they're either giant fucking idiots or they work for a healthcare provider.

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8/6/2010 12:53:06 PM

yea, ok

8/6/2010 12:56:21 PM

Quote :

"we fax loads of shit to doctors offices and hospitals because they are the worst run and managed of all businesses."

They are run the way they are because of federal regulations, not by choice.

8/6/2010 3:09:33 PM

in part yes, the other part is because they can't run a business.

8/6/2010 3:23:37 PM

the point is fuck old people and fuck foreigners

8/6/2010 3:30:50 PM